Show drifting will soon start at water lily lilya 0 new shaft of the chief cons company has reached water level drifting will be started in the near future the water level has been reached in the east tintic gintic or water lil shaft ot of the chief cons ons compan and preparations are being made tor for drifting the first water was en countered at a depth of 1446 feet according to manager cecil fitch this flow continued to increase and when the shaft reached a depth of 1468 feet sinking was stopped corn com ing back to the 1442 toot foot level prep orations were made tor for cutting out a station it was at this point that the chief cons people will corn com mence drifting and four headings are to be sent forward aa as rapidly as two shifts can handle the work mr air fitch states that these drifts will be sent out toward the tour four cardinal points north south east and west the reason tor for working in tour four directions is that this particular sec sel con of east Is covered with a rhyolite porphyry which makes it im possible to compile needed geological information frony from surface observe eions thel the formation through which the drifts will pill be driven Is what Is known as he jGolden ray limestone and because or of in the last few chuyu huyu hundred hu adred r e d f feet ee t of shaft the chief cons conk people 0 p I 1 are re quite conti dent of b being g able to open corn com mercial 0 ore bithis at any rate the pros pecking 0 of tats large tract will bo be under very favorable conditions the development campaign will be watch wate h ed with more than ordinary interest not only will this work have an lin portent bearing on the affairs of the chief cons company but it also means much to the other companies owning claims in that part of the district mr fitch says that the collar of the water lily shaft Is about 21 feet lower than the collar of the main shaft at the tintic gintic standard property the water lily shaft Is also feet lower than the no 1 shaft of the chief at eureka the standard standards s shaft has been sunk to a depth of 1460 1450 feet and while no water was encountered there Is con sid erable moisture in the sump water would likely be found in the standard at a depth of about 1470 feet the point where water was first encountered in the water lily shaft Is 20 feet above the level of utah lake while the sump would be almost at the lake lakes s level wonderful ul progress has been made in sending the chief chiefs s new shaft down to the water level it was on this piece of sinking that the walter fitch jr contracting corn com pany established a world s record and it i is quite certain that at no time in the history of mining has a mine shaft been sunk a distance of 1500 feet in such a short time |